Hungarians wedged into the pipe "Turkish flow". As the Hungarian agency MTI reports with reference to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Hungary Peter Siyarto, Gazprom and Budapest signed an agreement on gas supplies to the country along this route.

The leadership of the country considers the supply of blue fuel on the "Turkish flow" the most realistic solution than through Romania or Croatia, because these ways have not been worked out yet. "For this reason, Hungary has an interest in receiving gas from the south," RIA Novosti quotes Siyarto.

The laying of the branch of the Turkish Stream pipeline to the Hungarian border is scheduled until the end of 2019. The total volume of gas supplies is estimated at about 8 billion cubic meters. M per year. For comparison, in 2016 g. In Hungary was delivered 5.7 billion cubic meters. Of Russian gas.

Moscow and Budapest signed a roadmap for the development of Hungary's gas transmission system and a memorandum of understanding between Gazprom Export and Hungarian Gas Trade Ltd for long-term cooperation on the supply of Russian gas to this country, Gazprom said after the meeting of the chairman of the board Alexey Miller's company with Siyarto.

"While the second thread of the" Turkish Stream "exists only in the draft, and the agreement is purely preliminary in nature. Preliminary options are calculated, along which route the gas can be directed. He can go on different routes, but Hungary is interested in receiving transit fees and uninterrupted gas supplies. And although the agreement with Budapest is preliminary, it is important for Gazprom to show its intentions in discussing these issues, "said Stanislav Mitrakhovich, leading expert of the National Energy Security Fund, on Wednesday,.

Recall that in December 2014. Moscow because of the unconstructive position of the European Union announced the termination of work on the "South Stream", which was to pass through the territory of Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, in favor of a new gas pipeline towards Turkey.

In October 2016 g. Moscow and Ankara signed an intergovernmental agreement on the project "Turkish Stream", the operator of which is the South Stream Transport. According to the document, the construction of two strings of the main gas pipeline along the bottom of the Black Sea with the capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters of gas each. One branch is envisaged for the supply of blue fuel directly to the Turkish market, the other for supplying gas via Turkey to European countries.